Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabeth

[Lulletje Rozewater]

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[Óttar]

I'm sure there is a better table. Much of Egyptian hieroglyphics had their own pictographs for nouns, gods etc. I didn't realise it could be correlated with Roman letters.

For example, the name of Isis (anc. Egypt. Aset) had a throne in it because her name means literally "(She of the) throne."

[Lulletje Rozewater]

What was the Rosetta stone then.

[Óttar]

What was the Rosetta stone then.
Egyptian Hieroglyphs use phonograms (for consonants) but then have complimentary image signs after words to be more specific. Many nouns are denoted using logograms (images) e.g. the Sun and their status as a logogram is denoted by a diacritical mark, often a straight line i.e. |.

I know for example the god Min was denoted as a man with an erect phallus and things relevant to the male genital organ (seed etc.) were denoted by a phallus.

E.A. Wallace Budge's translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead has all lines in hieroglyphics, Roman transliteration and English running horizontally.